History: specific events & topics
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History: specific events & topics
Paperback. This monograph makes clear how the format of the literary folio played a fundamental role in book history by encapsulating the unstable negotiation between commerce, cultural prestige, and the fundamental nature of the printed book. Series: History of Text Technologies. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; HBJD1; HBL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349493913
- ISBN
- 9781349493913
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.90
€ 65.90
paperback. There is extraordinary diversity, depth, and complexity in the encounter between theatre, performance, and human rights. Through an examination of a rich repertoire of plays and performance practices from and about countries across six continents, the contributors open the way toward understanding the character and significance of this encounter. Editor(s): Becker, F. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; AS; HBTB; HPS; JHB; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- SKU
- V9781349439508
- ISBN
- 9781349439508
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.36€ 46.83
€ 53.36
€ 46.83
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231125086
- ISBN
- 9780231125086
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 105.45
€ 105.45
Paperback. This text draws on research on North America, Europe and Australia, to trace criminology's historical evolution, its current problems, disappointing achievements, and promising trends. It concludes with a prospective look at the future of criminology and criminology of the future. Num Pages: 358 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KB; 1MBF; HBTB; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 561.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 358
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333683101
- ISBN
- 9780333683101
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 72.50
€ 72.50
Paperback. An illuminating study of the demographic, cultural, and socioeconomic condition of East Central European Jewry. Series: A Midland Book. Num Pages: 320 pages, 3 figures. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 159 x 235 x 18. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Number of pages
- 318
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253204189
- ISBN
- 9780253204189
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.63
€ 27.99
€ 26.63
Paperback. Provides overviews of key movements in European film history, since the inception of the medium. This book includes introductions to traditions as diverse as early Soviet cinema, German Expressionism, Surrealism, Italian Neorealism, the French New Wave, Ealing Comedy, East-Central European cinema, Contemporary Spanish cinema, and more. Editor(s): Ezra, Elizabeth. Num Pages: 368 pages, numerous halftones. BIC Classification: 1D; APF; HBT. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 171 x 246 x 15. Weight in Grams: 698.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199255719
- ISBN
- 9780199255719
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.10
€ 63.10
hardcover. Leikin draws on his own translations of trial transcripts (found in the personal library of his father, who served as chief rabbi in the town of Kazan, Russia) to chronicle a 1911 trial in Kiev that was trumped up to launch a vicious anti-Jewish campaign. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portla Editor(s): Leikin, Ezekiel. Num Pages: 241 pages. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBTZ1; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 162 x 25. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Jason Aronson, Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 241
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780876681794
- ISBN
- 9780876681794
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 131.95
€ 131.95
Paperback. Num Pages: 296 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; APFN; AS; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349368181
- ISBN
- 9781349368181
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.89
€ 66.89
Hardback. Polish cinema has inescapably been shaped by the nation's succession of different economic and ideological regimes over the last century. This volume is the first to analyze the entirety of the nation's film history-from independence in 1918 to today-through the lenses of political economy and social class. Num Pages: 378 pages, 28 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVP; 3JJ; APF; HBTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785335365
- ISBN
- 9781785335365
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 175.14
€ 175.14
Paperback. Editor(s): Brown, Evrick; Shortell, Timothy. Series: Urban Life, Landscape and Policy. Num Pages: 292 pages. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFSG; JFSL4; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781439912218
- ISBN
- 9781439912218
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 34.29
€ 36.99
€ 34.29
Paperback. Eviatar Zerubavel casts a critical eye on how we trace our past-individually and collectively-arguing that rather than simply find out who our ancestors are from genetics or history, we actually create the stories that make them our ancestors. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTG; JHBA; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 131 x 16. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199336043
- ISBN
- 9780199336043
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.98
€ 44.98
Hardback. Num Pages: 296 pages, 10 line illus. 6 tables. BIC Classification: 1D; HBTZ1; JFSR1; JMH; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691172576
- ISBN
- 9780691172576
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.81
€ 46.99
€ 33.81
Hardcover. Asceticism, so it is argued in this volume, is a modern category. The ubiquitous cult of the body, of fitness and diet equally evoke the ongoing success of ascetic practices and beliefs. Nostalgic memories of hardship and discipline in the army, youth movements or boarding schools remain as present as the fashionable irritation.. Editor(s): Molle, Leen van; Wils, Kaat; Peeters, Evert. Num Pages: 264 pages, 35 ills. BIC Classification: HBTB; HRLM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 155 x 237 x 20. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845457730
- ISBN
- 9781845457730
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 162.52
€ 162.52
Paperback. The Hell-Fire Clubs scandalized eighteenth-century English society. This book explores the social and economic context in which the clubs emerged and flourished; their various phases, which first involved violence as an assertion of masculinity, then religious blasphemy, and later sexual indulgence. Num Pages: 250 pages, black-&-white plate section. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFSV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 199 x 128 x 22. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Number of pages
- 250
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300164022
- ISBN
- 9780300164022
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 17.97
€ 21.99
€ 17.97
Hardback. Reveals the difficult course of French filmmaking from the declaration of war in 1939 through four years of misery to France's liberation in 1944. This book examines the conditions of filmmaking as they reflected the larger political, cultural, and social context within occupied France. It is suitable for film historians. Num Pages: 235 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: APFA; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 278 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1985
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231059268
- ISBN
- 9780231059268
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 79.92€ 62.60
€ 79.92
€ 62.60
Paperback. The story of how the concept of a pantheon, a building honouring great individuals, spread across Revolutionary Europe and interacted with socio-political and cultural changes. Analysing the canon and iconography of each pantheon, Bouwers shows how the commemoration of war and celebration of nationhood gave way to the protection of elite interests. Series: War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850. Num Pages: 340 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AMA; HBJD; HBL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 340
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349333448
- ISBN
- 9781349333448
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.43
€ 67.43
Hardcover. The story of how the concept of a pantheon, a building honouring great individuals, spread across Revolutionary Europe and interacted with socio-political and cultural changes. Analysing the canon and iconography of each pantheon, Bouwers shows how the commemoration of war and celebration of nationhood gave way to the protection of elite interests. Series: War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850. Num Pages: 340 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 219 x 24. Weight in Grams: 550.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230294714
- ISBN
- 9780230294714
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.21
€ 68.21
Hardcover. This collection brings together a group of historians to show how historical prejudice against Jews continued to resonate throughout the Netherlands in the post-World War II years. Editor(s): Ensel, Remco; Gans, Evelien. Series: NIOD Studies on War, Holocaust, and Genocide. Num Pages: 598 pages, 0 black and white; 29 full color. BIC Classification: 1DDN; 3JJP; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ1; HBWQ; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Amsterdam University Press Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 598
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9789089648488
- ISBN
- 9789089648488
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.69
€ 161.69
Hardcover. Stoddard uses the Anglophone Caribbean and Ireland to examine the complex inflections of women and race as articulated in-between the colonial discursive and material formations of the eighteenth century and those of the (post)colonial twentieth century, as structured by the defined spaces of the colonizers' estates. Series: Critical Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 1KJ; HBTB; HBTQ; HBTR; JFSJ; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230113725
- ISBN
- 9780230113725
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.04
€ 67.04
Hardback. Editor(s): Bannet, Eve Tavor; Wheeler, Roxann. Num Pages: 304 pages, 12, 12 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JF; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421422145
- ISBN
- 9781421422145
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.99€ 43.54
€ 50.99
€ 43.54
Paperback. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, maps, recorded music items. BIC Classification: HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 135 x 23. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Inc United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780060859602
- ISBN
- 9780060859602
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.61
€ 19.99
€ 18.61
Hardback. Eve A. Pollecoff here tells the story of Otto Markus - 'Pioneer Merchant Trader' - who established his East African Trading Company in the wake of growing British interest in East Africa: especially Kenya and Uganda. Num Pages: 224 pages, 32 in 16pp bw plates. BIC Classification: 1HFGK; 1HFGU; 3JH; BGH; HBTQ; KCLT. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 151 x 223 x 22. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848859371
- ISBN
- 9781848859371
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 58.77€ 54.79
€ 58.77
€ 54.79
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319441672
- ISBN
- 9783319441672
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 107.05€ 38.92
€ 107.05
€ 38.92
Hardback. Who were the men who officered the Royal Navy in Nelson's day? Num Pages: 312 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, 17 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; 3JH; HBJD1; HBTB; HBTM; JWF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 251 x 163 x 27. Weight in Grams: 716.
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781783271740
- ISBN
- 9781783271740
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.99
€ 116.99